OSCARS: Anything Goes In This Year’s Race

February 1, 2013 8:00pm

With less than a month to go, the stage is set for one of the strangest Oscar showdowns in memory. Certainly the season started with some clear favorites emerging, like Argoat Telluride, Silver Linings Playbookat Toronto, then Lincolnjust after the election, followed by Life Of Pi. I thought Paramount’s Flight also might emerge as a major best picture contender around this time, but when critics awards and early nominations for Globes and CCMAs started coming in, it was clear this was mainly just a play for Denzel Washington and John Gatins’ original screenplay. At Christmas time, we got Zero Dark Thirty,Django Unchained,and the hotly anticipated Les Misérables to complete our seven-pack of best picture contenders. What many weren’t anticipating was that two small indie films that made a splash earlier in the year were also going to come in. Beasts Of The Southern Wildmanaged to hold on to all that momentum from its Sundance debut a year ago, and then (more…)

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